This study aims at giving visibility to two women; Mary Jane Seacole and Mary Soldier, who have experienced racism in their actions, but they knew how to face the unknown boundaries, overcoming them in search of their lives ideals. Through the documental research method, it is intended to rescue the history of these black women, placing them as models for the nursing professional history and also among the forerunners of the modern nursing.
This study aimed at identifying and analyzing the black women participation in the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution as well as understanding the history of the Black Legion, which counted with a group of women called nurses due to their mission to care of wounded combatant of this armed conflict. Thus, it is intended also to collaborate with other studies on ethnical issues within Nursing and through documental sources, preserved at the historical archives, reach the origins, organizational structure, functioning dynamics, methods for calling and performance of black women at the battle front. The 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution was considered by several authors as the greatest armed conflict in the Brazilian territory in which had participated different ethnic groups such as the Black Legion. For this purpose, it is intended to identify how and why these women were characterized and called as nurses. Although the slavery had been abolished in the country, still within the imperial period, in the Republic which followed it, the racism has continued to exist in the society. As a segment of this society, the nursing as profession, which has among its main functions to care of sick people, has reflected such racism, in a clear or veiled way. As a matter of fact, it is possible to say that such prejudice has existed until these days within job social spaces of nursing personnel as shown on the current health public policies and ministerial campaigns targeting combat against all forms of intolerance related to Brazilians of African origin.
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